Max von Laue "For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor."-Max von Laue
Max von Laue was born in Pfaffendorf, Germany on October 9, 1979. He died on April 23, 1960 in Berlin, Germany in a car accident. His full name is Max Theodor Felix von Laue and was born to Julius von Laue who was a German military official. Max was in the German army as well, from 1898-1899. In 1914, he won the Nobel Prize for his work in measuring the wavelengths of x-rays by their diffraction through the atoms of a crystal. Von Laue discovered the x-ray diffraction by crystals and this has impacted today's society in a big way because x-rays are used all the time today. Max von Laue studied at four different universities between 1898 and 1904. He worked at seven different universities between 1903 and 1958.
"For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor."-Max von Laue
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Max von Laue was born in Pfaffendorf, Germany on October 9, 1979. He died on April 23, 1960 in Berlin, Germany in a car accident. His full name is Max Theodor Felix von Laue and was born to Julius von Laue who was a German military official. Max was in the German army as well, from 1898-1899. In 1914, he won the Nobel Prize for his work in measuring the wavelengths of x-rays by their diffraction through the atoms of a crystal. Von Laue discovered the x-ray diffraction by crystals and this has impacted today's society in a big way because x-rays are used all the time today. Max von Laue studied at four different universities between 1898 and 1904. He worked at seven different universities between 1903 and 1958.
Max von Laue wrote a book titled History of Physics and here is a link for where you can get this book:
http://www.amazon.com/History-Physics-Max-Von-Laue/dp/1175668079/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1324661945&sr=8-3